Is This the Last Known Artifact of Taylor Swift’s Romance with Conor Kennedy?

Five days after it was reported that Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy had broken up, no one has answered our urgent Tay-Con questions. (We have no idea whether Taylor will drag again, whether Taylor will sell her Hyannis Port home, and, most distressingly, how Ethel Kennedy is processing the news.) In fact, the only additional report we’ve seen is a thirdhand re-confirmation of the breakup from a student at Conor’s boarding school, Deerfield Academy. (“His friends have said it’s over,” the source told*People*. “I have the feeling she ended it.”) As is the case with sudden celebrity breakups, however, sometimes media cannot keep up . . . specifically magazines, which plan their cover stories months in advance. Case in point: Taylor Swift’s December Cosmopolitan cover, unveiled today, which features lingering evidence of the bygone, several-month Swift-Kennedy era—perhaps the last known artifact of the pair’s storied (on VF.com, at least) summer romance.

The cover features Swift alongside the cover line: “Crazy for a Kennedy! Taylor Swift p. 34.” (Although in all fairness, the line could allude to Swift’s well-documented she-mance with Conor’s grandmother, Ethel.) In Cosmo cover positioning that will surely make the Kennedy family proud, the stale blurb appears opposite the tag “LATE NIGHT SEX” and above “SNEAKY SEX QUIZZES” and, our favorite, “So You Ate a Cupcake?”

While Swift does not directly discuss Kennedy in the teased cover story, the author notes that Swift nursed a J.F.K. obsession, even devouring a 900-page book called The Kennedy Women. Additionally, Swift talks about past romances, telling the magazine, “I’ve never wasted too much time with the wrong person and that’s one thing I’m proud of.” Also: “I’ve had a lot of dark and twisty situations happen, enough to realize that when someone exhibits signs of evoking a dark and twisty relationship and dark and twisty feelings, it’s not interesting to me.” Your analysis of these statements (in addition to tips on Ethel’s whereabouts) are welcome in the space below.